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Author Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.

Title The memoirs of John Addington Symonds : a critical edition / Amber K. Regis, editor
Published London : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

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Series Genders and sexualities in history
Genders and sexualities in history.
Contents Series Editors' Preface; Notes on the Text; Establishing the Text; Silent Corrections and Notation; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 'The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds Written by Himself'; Composition and Compilation; Unfinished; Legacies and Afterlives; The Art of Biography; Bonfire and Embargo; Access Denied; Broken Seals and Light Edits; Sub-committees and Scholars; Notes; The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds; Preface; Notes; Chapter 1: Childhood-No. 7 Berkeley Square, Bristol-From the Year 1840 to the Year 1851; Notes
Chapter 2: Containing Material Which None But Students of Psychology and Ethics Need PeruseNote to the Foregoing Section; Notes; Chapter 3: First Period of Boyhood-Clifton Hill House-From the Year 1851 to the Year 1854; Note to the Preceding Chapter; Notes; Chapter 4: Second Period of Boyhood-Harrow on the Hill-From the Year 1854 to the Year 1858; Notes; Chapter 5: Painful Circumstances Connected with the Last Year of My Life at Harrow; Notes; Chapter 6: Adolescence. Life at Oxford, and the Painful Incidents of My First Year There; i; ii; iii; iv; Notes
Chapter 7: An Important Episode in My Oxford Life. Alfred BrookeQuemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarumi10; i; ii; iii; iv; v; vi; Alfred Brooke; Quemadmodum desiderat cervus ad fontes aquarum; Notes; Chapter 8: End of My Oxford Life. Wanderings in Switzerland. Rosa Engel and Catherine North. Italy; Notes; Chapter 9: Life in London. Marriage. First Attack of Lung Disease; Notes; Chapter 10: Early Years of Marriage. A Tour in Normandy. Peregrinations of All Sorts. Interrupted Literary Labour; A Song of Cyclades129; Notes
Chapter 11: Peregrinations Continued. Switzerland, Provence, the Riviera. Settlement at Clifton in the Autumn of 1868Phallus Impudicus70; i; ii; iii; Notes; Chapter 12: Emotional Development; i; ii; iii; Notes; Chapter 13: Norman; Notes; Chapter 14: Intellectual and Literary Evolution; i; ii; iii; iv; v; vi; Notes; Chapter 15: Religious Development; Notes; Chapter 16: Life at Clifton Hill House, 1870-77; i; ii; Notes; Chapter 17: The Transition to Davos Platz, and Life There; i; ii29; iii; iv; v; vi; vii; Notes; Chapter 18: Angelo Fusato; Notes; Appendices; Appendix 1
Miscellaneous Papers Bound with the Memoirs Manuscript1. Symonds's Case Study for Sexual Inversion; 2. Letter of Instruction to Horatio Brown; 3. Symonds's 'History of the Rutson Affair'; 4. Letter from Norman Moor; 5. Transcribed Note from Roden Noel; Appendix 2; Letters Bound with Chapter 16; Appendix 3; Rewritten Pages (MS 517a-b); Appendix 4; Symonds Family Photographs; Appendix 5; The Memoirs Manuscript; Notes; Index
Summary This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding light upon sexual cultures and life histories too often hidden from history. Symonds (1840-93) began writing his Memoirs in 1889. It was, he confessed, 'a foolish thing to do'. Symonds was a respected man of letters, an historian, translator, essayist and poet; he was also married with children. But rather than unfold a simple tale of public and private achievement, the Memoirs record his struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with these professional and familial identities
Notes Includes index
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Subject Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.
Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.
European history.
Literature: history & criticism.
Gender studies, gender groups.
British & Irish history.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authors, English
Homosexuality and literature
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
Author Regis, Amber K., editor
ISBN 9781137291240
1137291249